skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that ends up working for voting machines because those are two different problems.

With the CDN, the user receives source code and they want to verify the source code is unchanged. Checking a hash of the data they received is sufficient.

For a voting machine, what's the analogue? If I walk up to a voting machine with an integrity key, how do I check that the source code it's running has a given hash or is signed with a given key?

If the voting machine itself shows the code or does the check, obviously a person who compromised the machine can fake that bit. If I have to remove the hdd and verify the data on it, and take apart the voting machine to verify there's no second hard drive... well, that seems like it's well out of reach of any voter verifying it.

Integrity keys, hashes, signatures, blockchains, etc can verify digital data, can verify the contents of data that servers serve... But they don't seem to solve the problem of "what code is this machine running", and that seems to be the important problem for voting machine code.
> it had a fairly substantial amount of input lag

I use sway since ~2 years and i never experienced such thing. I you can still reproduce you should definitely look into it and email the maintainers, i'm sure it's a bug. Right now sway is feature frozen and it seems to be rock-solid. Screen capture works with pipewire (which is a breath of fresh air in comparison with the pulse/jack combo) and the xdg-desktop-portal extension. At this point i'm not sure i'll switch to something else in my lifetime!
Is it 10000 CI minutes per user?
Thanks for the response. It looks like just because the fingerprint is unique doesn't mean that it's accurate or stable.
Covid deaths: UK passes milestone of 100k
Stream is already at 8.4 kABI (kernel modules ABI). If you have any binary kernel modules that are not compatible, too bad. (For example, ZFS is still on 8.3).

Poppler is going to be rebased from from 0.66.0 to 20.11.0. If you have anything linked to it, it will break; you need new binaries linked against the new soname. There is a surprising number packages linked against it, and third-party ones too (e.g. GDAL, used by all geo apps out there).

Similar thing will happen with other rebased packages.

RHEL users will get that packaged in 8.4, with release notes. Stream users are getting these breakages randomly.
Something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008LR3KD8/

The idea is that it wakes you up gently by flooding the room with light resembling a natural sunrise. One reason that it might be expensive is that it needs a lot of high luminance hue shifting LEDs, and possibly I overpaid a bit (there do seem to be much cheaper competitors) but it was still a good investment because it does make my mornings a lot more pleasant.
> introduced in July 2011 (commit 8255ed69), and affects all legacy versions from 1.8.2 to 1.8.31p2 and all stable versions from 1.9.0 to 1.9.5p1, in their default configuration.

It looks like this is pretty far reaching. All of my boxes were vulnerable to this before updating today.
What happens to my Firefox (on Mac) very often is that it does an auto update and then just becomes completely unstable (things just suddenly stop working, like audio in a Google Meet call). Then I restart, and get some happy "Hooray you have the new Firefox" window, which makes me angry, because I was in the middle of something important usually. I then procede by clicking away the tab with the "features" and restore my session.
earliest post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919235
Working from home is losing its effectiveness, bank execs say
This. I bought a hard drive docking station and the idea was to go through all my 6 hard drives from the past 10 years which I haven't used. Only the laptop drives worked.
Author here. We have experimented with Realms in the past and had a working version for some time. Also did some POC with quickjs. In both scenarios, we saw performance degrade a lot.. So our current eval is run actually in the web worker so we take extra precautions to avoid leaking any problem some browser api inside the eval context. I like the idea of having a wasm eval environment as well, will experiment with that soon. Thanks for the tips :)
How long does it take to get the data off disk and into memory after coming online? A decade ago filling just 64GB of memory with our hot dataset was a painful process. I can't imagine it's any nicer with 768GB.
Title could use a (2012)
I'm old enough to remember (like New Coke) ZapMail by FedEx where you would send documents by FedEx and FedEx would Fax it on their equipment to a location near the recipient for physical delivery. Obligatory Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapmail. Hey, most businesses didn't have one of those newfangled FAX machines.
Indeed, the Church is responsible for preserving many ancient pagan records that would otherwise have been lost with the fall of Rome. Islamic scholars also played a role in this (e.g., the surviving Aristotelian corpus).
Whitelist/blacklist have their origins in terms from the 1400s and nothing to do with race (they have to do with criminality). Twisting their etymology to fit some kind of racial bias is sort of weird.

And throwing aside 600 years of clarity for "basic manners" also seems rather weird. Sort of like banning the word "engender" because a small minority might find that to be offensive. It isn't clearer to use a different word than has been used for over half a millennium.
The publications they point to are from 2012 and 2013. Did this work ever go anywhere after that?
When I first used mosaic, also Google when it first appeared
It's still used, but I doubt it's growing anymore. To me it feels like a product that will still be around for a long time, but is falling behind more and more
/etc/hosts

https://github.com/Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/Ultimate.Hosts.B...
My experience of data storage among academics has been disturbing. Masses and masses of work is stored on USB sticks and laptops. Hundreds of hours of work, maybe even thousands of hours and no backups. I’ve hit it multiple times and it blows my mind each time.

Yes, buying a basic backup solution is going to set you back a few hundred dollars minimum (or not, if you go for BB or similar) but it seems like a basic minimum.

I don’t know how you change the culture but it’s bad among those I have worked along side.

I haven’t bought large drives in years and recently started doing so. I have been really impressed with how good they are and how well they perform in an always-on NAS. I’m so impressed with the Synology I got and can’t speak highly enough of it. I just wish I’d bought one with more bays.
GME: Or, why we shouldn't underestimate “4chan with a Bloomberg terminal”
My issue with pihole or any other DNS adblocker is I can't whitelist some website that I love.
As evil as ada network, but I still want my favorite site to get some revenue.
So they give full access to all repos you have access to (I.e. organizational repos) or only the ones you own?

If so this would mean I would consider to moving to a platform where the repository owner can control the tokens.
I don't see my book listed there. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/tragic-design/978149192...

Is this specific to programming topics?
Remzi and Andrea [0] have a pretty well regarded OS book used to teach the OS course at Wisconsin [1-2]. Hope they’re doing well, Andrea’s course teaching Scratch to 4th and 5th graders at a local elementary school was a highlight of my time there.

[0] I would use honorifics, but they are married which makes it a bit confusing.
[1] Which I never took but was well regarded when I was an undergrad

[2] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
They make most of the lamppost chargers in London.
GSM yes, but once phones went digital that capability was lost.
The "key piece" is support for "desktop web apps".

The article explains what it is, and champions it (perhaps to get the click friendly title, perhaps legitimately). But I have never felt the need to "run" a website in a separate "app".

If you use these, and can see their use case, please help me understand. Is the point that the web browser opens a new window and hides its toolbar to give you more screen real estate? Changes icon to match the favicon, so it is easier to switch to that window later?

What usability features am I missing out on if I just go to the website in my regular browser window, like the caveperson I suppose I am? :)
When I took a break from my startup, I ended up working for a fintech company and you will be surprised by

a) how much money they have

b) how little understanding of tech they have

For many non-traditional tech companies, they feel spending more money, will help offset tech deficiencies. In the same way that, novice golfers equate spending more money on golf equipment will make them better golfers.
It's opt-out. Feel free to check this yourself, instead of mindlessly defending Firefox. I'm tired of this exclusionary attitude on Hacker News, to be perfectly honest.

There is absolutely no warning that this telemetry is active, which is a dark-pattern in itself.

Looks like the Firefox mob have already got to this post. No wonder nothing is changing.

-- tentacleuno
I try to read them. I think it’s harder than it should be. I think it’s weird UI to use eye strain as a disincentive to read something controversial.
Mobile Safari has had content blockers for years.
Well but it seems gitlab offers a lot more value?
Andy at Backblaze here. All the drives are in data centers with temps around the 75-78 degree mark. Vibrations are kept to a minimum via the chassis design. We publish the data, including the SMART stats for all of the drives and there are attributes for temperature (SMART 194) and vibration (multiple) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T. for more info in SMART attributes.
I think the author is missing a key point in that software is vastly more complex than it was in the 90’s. The few times I’ve tried to contribute to open source, I spent more time trying to convince projects that my pull requests fixed the problem without causing other issues. And this is largely because my fixes tend to fix integration problems I had with the software. These weren’t small changes that could be unit tested, and setting up test repro steps were non trivial. I don’t blame maintainers for being slow to accept these kinds of fixes, when the bugs are likely to effect a small minority of users. 30 years ago you could look at a patch and at least reason about it’s efficacy, now you have to have some idea about supporting ecosystems, and not just libraries you’re already using.
It is not a popular view. You are required to say there are no issues, even though the issues can be experienced by anyone who participates in a campaign.
I've developed my own blocker for Safari, mostly because I was tired of other blockers breaking too many sites for me. So, it is designed to be less aggressive in filtering.

Give it a try if you want. It's free.
https://ads-free.app/Ads-Free!%20Desktop/
So many projects we use at work (including Qt and GitLab) seem to change their subscription plans to something that is much less favorable for smaller development teams. I wonder where this will lead to in the big picture, when more and more small companies can simply no longer justify paying for those subscriptions.
Elon Musk blasts Amazon, alleging effort to ‘hamstring’ SpaceX’s Starlink
Stabilizing Live Speech Translation in Google Translate
Why not just block ads, too? Do you really think advertising is ethical at any level? Because I do not. If I want to buy something, I seek it out. Anything else is like junk snail mail: a waste of my time and your money.
Creating Security Decision Trees with Graphviz
Just host your own runners https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/
Replaceable in the same sense as iPhone batteries are user serviceable, yes, and apparently battery over-discharging is a known issue as well from a quick Google search.
Don't LTO tape drives cost about a zillion dollars each?
The business model of the NIH and the UN does not depend on maximizing revenue
Ask HN: How does Chrome know where I am?
When giving permission to chrome to share my location with a webapp on my laptop, even with a VPN, chrome is able to tell my location accurately. How is chrome doing this? The docs say chrome sends a request to "Google Location Services". I understand that it must be related to my wifi network, but I'm not sure how it works past that... Thank you.
Doing this will make it trivially easy to fingerprint and track you on the web, as the set of people who use non-defaults like this list is 0.000001% of the total possible user space for their area, and your IP address probably only changes rarely or never

A better way to protect yourself is to use a browser with tracking protections on by default, and leave the settings alone. You may see a few more ads but you’ll be a lot less tracked as a result.

If personal convenience is the priority, then of course Adblock and so on to your heart’s content, but if not being tracked is the priority, reset your browser settings to default and remove weird addons that your neighbors don’t use.
They're still accessible, just not from modern browsers. You can still use an alternative player like Flashpoint. Anyone still relying on Flash to power a web interface is probably SOL though.
> There are actually air filters ... through which drives breathe

Although the helium drives are more sealed up, which also might be a factor?
This is called First-Party Isolation, a key principle of the Tor Browser and an optional preference in Firefox.
Didn't Plan9 do something like this?
It's a fascinating concept, but nothing seems to have happened in the eight years since.

This seems like it might gain a bit of performance in exchange for slightly-higher filesystem overhead, though it's not clear there are any stats on either. It's also not clear how exactly performance increases would surface: are reads slower but writes faster?
That's helpful perspective. Thanks.
In the past, I considered buying a subscription to show some support but the silver tier was too much for that and the bronze tier had nothing compelling. To be honest even silver/premium only had "pull mirroring" that seemed relevant to my individual use cases.
My experience has been the opposite. Every HDD drive I have works. The new ones are fine, even if I let them sit for months, as are the old ones after years.
Tesla... It's not the self driving, but not having to carry a key or start/stop the car is what gave me a virtual jaw drop.
The problem I see is that everywhere in Canada but Lower Mainland in BC you freeze 6 months out of a year.
> She’s talked about real things - voter suppression, propaganda campaigns, some funded by foreign governments – but she’s never made the kind of lies we saw about fake votes or said that millions of legitimate votes should be thrown out because she didn’t like the results.

The lies are different in the specifics but they’re lies calling into question the legitimacy of the results. Fact checkers have given Clinton multiple “pants on fire” ratings for these claims: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/19/hillary-cl...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/mar/06/hillary-cl...

Based on the studies we have seen, complaining about Voter ID laws, like Clinton did about Wisconsin, is akin to complaining about mail in voting security: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/21/18230009/v...

> The results: Voter ID laws do not seem to decrease turnout, even when the data is broken down by race. This held when the data was analyzed in different ways, like evaluating only the effect of stricter laws that require an ID with a photo.

Voter ID laws are also broadly popular, among whites and non-whites: https://news.gallup.com/poll/194741/four-five-americans-supp...

(81% of whites and 77% of non-whites support both early voting and voter ID. Funnily enough, “voter suppressed” states like Georgia and Texas have both. Georgia also had automatic voter registration, which non-whites strongly support, thanks to Brian Kemp.)
> I think the problem does stem from a retweet having a vibe of “I endorse this message.”, regardless of what the retweeter has written in their bio.

At the very least, a retweet always means "I want more people to see this message".
>all in the name of getting a higher number of people vaccinated so the headlines look better.

In the name of saving lives actually. Two people getting 90% protection beats one getting 95%.
Which one more annoying for you between today's tracker and early 2000ish popup on top IE?

Or remember adware on windows XP and how many antivirus tools advertised to eradicate that.

* they're hilarious comparison but I found it amusing.
> So if I run in with a thousand ballots and shuffle them in with existing ballots, unless you can prove that I changed the outcome, that's fine?

A crime is a crime regardless of whether it effects the outcome. It is fairly straightforward to prove that you stuffed a thousand ballets if you actually did that, we just have to show evidence of what you did! It is impossible to prove that you or someone else didn't stuff ballots, because it is logically a possible that it occurred. IE proving existence is something that is possible, proving non-existence is something that is impossible.

> I'm saying the wrong doing is invalidating the electoral process.

I'm saying that there is simply no evidence of wrong doing so the courts have nothing to act on. We haven't even made it to the "should the wrong doing invalidate the electoral process" yet.
The Hep C cure wasn't all that profitable, from what I understand. On paper it was a clear win-win - the cure would save the various healthcare services lots of money compared with treatment, whilst still raking in boatloads of money. The trouble is that healthcare services everywhere balked at buying it regardless of their structure and despite the fact that not doing so would cost them money in the long term, and even at those rejected prices it wouldn't have been nearly as profitable as a long-term ongoing treatment because it eliminates its own customer base.
If the point is a copy-paste raster image that shall be understood by most other programs, then image/png is a fine choice, as it is lossless and well-known.
Remember when you make a pricing model for your company: you can never change it without some kind of backlash unless you can make things cheaper. So it's fine to charge a bit more initially and figure things out as you go, you can then lower the price once you've worked the numbers and/or have to respond to competitive pressure.

But changing your model will upset your customers, no matter how well you intend it and there will always be a backlash, especially from developers for tools because there is always going to be someone else that does it cheaper. Rely on the 'cost too switch' once too often and you will shed users and users that leave will never come back. It is easier to attract a new user than it is to get someone that got burned to return.

Do what you can to get it right the first time and build in some room. And if you do have to change it be willing to grandfather in the users that got you there for ever.
"Political views aren't a statutory protected class because they're constitutionally protected, in that they're an essential component to having a democratic government."

Are you saying the constitution actually says something about it or rather it's the only way you can see democracy working so therefore the constitution must imply?
Domestic power load already fluctuates a lot and the grid handles that fine. Most people are not going to need to recharge fully every day and the load could be spread throughout the night.
In Israel, cable/satellite company-owned channels only ads shown for other shows or channels. That's not because they're nice, but because they're legally barred from showing "real" ads (only commercial, free OTA channels can do that; gov-owned public access only shows ads for their own shows, same reason). Plus those ads are just between programs and never in the middle of one. They still get very repetitive, though.
Arstechnica take on this story:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/north...
I'm curious how bad disabling this caching feature would be. Specifically, how often do you load the same image on two different domains?
It's called nostalgia, and we pretty much all have that condition.

There are some fields or scenes where I recall how it used to be magical, but I know my mind is playing with me.

Many people think that it's too much, too many apps, too many people, too much complexity. Yes. That may be the case and this may not suit everyone, especially those who lived through a pretty magical period with the birth of the world wide Web, or BBS, or open source movement, or the free software movement. Yes, god damn, that has got to make someone nostalgic. However, all that is now is not 'just' ruining it. The Beatles are what they are because of all the people who've never been to their concerts who wish they had been, amplified by people who were there who thought Paul sucked at guitar at the time. People mostly are indifferent to shifts in the now, and only cling to the now when it becomes the good old days or when someone makes a documentary about it and we feel we belong special for belonging to something that is not anymore.

This says much more about us, our desire to belong, to be special, than it says about what reality is or was. We can apply this to forums people thought sucked until they disappear and the memories kick in.
> especially because a lot of features already in bronze are not things we actually use or need

This has been my org's issue as well. We use dedicated, external products for project management, CI, binary asset storage, container registry, wiki, etc etc. I get that a one-stop shop might be really valuable for a small org with basic needs that align well to what GitLab supplies, but I don't know if it scales up all that well. I would worry about getting partly migrated and then discovering some functionality gap, and maybe finding out that the GitLab team that built that feature no longer exists and there was basically no one maintaining it any more.

Spreading themselves so thin does have a real cost— here's an example of recently-resolved ticket for something that I would consider core "repository" functionality (LFS content inclusion in the tarball) but that sat unfixed and unnoted-in-docs for almost four years: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/15079
Will Airbyte support MySQL as destination?
Wirelessly rechargeable soft brain implant controls brain cells
Artificial antibodies are such a better treatment! I really hope this works out and becomes mainstream.
To me, there is no such thing as an “ethical ad”. You are trying to steal my attention, my time. You don’t get to do that. My time on Earth is limited and you don’t get a millisecond of it if I can help it.

If I want to buy something, I seek it out. Anything else is a waste of my time and a waste of the advertisers money.

I long ago decided to throw out every piece of physical ad mail I receive without even glancing at it more than long enough to recognize it as an advertisement.

I don’t know why you expect me to treat your digital ads any differently?

You can call my perspective extremist, but is it any more extreme than the methods used by advertising networks to steal my attention?
There are quite a few multifunction printers with fax.
sounds like learning to me. In the 1950s this was somewhat advanced machine learning.
I read a Wikipedia article about the concept of bad faith as described by Sartre. Bad faith([1]) comes close to how I feel and wanted to share it in case anyone else is interested.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_(existentialism)